Friday, 12 June, 2026

Category: Environment


The death toll from Saturday’s devastating earthquake in Haiti has jumped to at least 227, Haiti’s civil protection service has said. Hundreds more are injured or missing, and several towns across the island nation lie in ruins. A magnitude 7.2 Read more…


The Enugu Capital Territory Development Authority, ECTDA, has demolished Eke Obinagu market along Enugu-Abakaliki road, which constituted traffic congestion along the Trans-African highway that connects Nigeria and Cameroon.https://servedbyadbutler.com/adserve/;ID=162803;size=300×250;setID=151330;type=iframe;sw=1366;sh=768;spr=1;kw=;pid=149865;place=0;rnd=149865;click=CLICK_MACRO_PLACEHOLDER The old community market had with time flown into the road which Read more…


The Federal Capital Territory Administration on Wednesday demolished about 2,000 illegal structures in Mpape community. The Chairman, FCT Ministerial Committee on City Sanitation, Ikharo Attah, said the demolition was meant to sanitise the area. He added that residents and landlords Read more…


The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), on Tuesday, demolished another set of illegal structures ranging from residential houses, worship centres, shops, schools, vocational workshops, block making industries, uncompleted buildings and shanties in Iddo Sabo community, Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Read more…


A tiny British bat has made a record-breaking journey, flying more than 2,000km (1,200 miles) from the famous London Zoo to Russia’s northwestern region of Pskov – only to meet its end at the claws of a stray Russian cat. Read more…


Two people are reportedly missing after their vehicle was washed away by flood caused by heavy downpour in Malka village in Ningi Local Government Area of Bauchi State.×× The Nation gathered the flood, which lasted for several hours from Thursday Read more…


Barak Ravid Ebrahim Raisi President-elect of Iran Iran’s Supreme National Security Council has rejected a draft agreement negotiated indirectly with the U.S. over the past three months in Vienna, a government spokesman said Thursday. Why it matters: This decision seems to Read more…


The Governor of Akwa Ibom State  Mr. Emmanuel Gabriel Udom  has said that the 5 per cent on oil derivation demanded by Southern Governors was not too much considering the devastating effect on members of such communities. The Governor stated Read more…


The small rural district of Ahrweiler, in western Germany, seemingly faced the full wrath of the week’s severe floods, with the foul weather leaving dozens of people dead, hundreds injured, and scores of homes reduced to rubble. At least 62 Read more…


Finally, the much-awaited Petroleum Industry Bill was passed by the two chambers of the National Assembly, recently. Of the 319 clauses and eight schedules that make up the bill, the ones concerning the host communities and the frontier development of Read more…


Open grazing of cattle is a grave source of conflict between farmers and the herders throughout the country. The rate at which the clashes regularly occur is very alarming and indeed unsettling. This ever rising conflict has become a notorious national Read more…


Dr Mohammad Abubakar, Minister of Environment, on Monday, disclosed that Nigeria recorded 4,919 oil spills between 2015 to March 2021 and lost 4.5 trillion barrels of oil to theft in four years. Abubakar disclosed this at a Town Hall meeting Read more…